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IN THE BAY.
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viii.

Above the sunset might I see thine eyes

That were above the sundawn in our skies,
Son of the songs of morning,—thine that were
First lights to lighten that rekindling air
Wherethrough men saw the front of England rise
And heard thine loudest of the lyre-notes there—

ix.

If yet thy fire have not one spark the less,

O Titan, born of her a Titaness,
Across the sunrise and the sunset's mark
Send of thy lyre one sound, thy fire one spark,
To change this face of our unworthiness,
Across this hour dividing light from dark.

x.

To change this face of our chill time, that hears

No song like thine of all that crowd its ears,